> > Well, a virus like Swen wouldn't need root access to spread. I don't > know what Swen does to a Windows machine (and I don't care, I haven't > got any), but just to annoy people with enormous amounts of e-mail, > someone could imageinebly write a perl script with its own > SMTP-engine. > If a non-priviliged user was fooled into executing the perl > script, it > could still spread to any platform with Perl installed. >
Aren't these viruses rendered relativley harmess by applying appropriate restriction on routers (ACLs) and firewalls to limit which machines can send smtp traffic ? mj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]